Do JavaScript 'Script Loaders' Really Do Any Good?—
Some JavaScript heavyweights, including Jeremy Ashkenas, Thomas Fuchs and Paul Irish, weigh in on an epic debate about the effectiveness of JavaScript 'script loaders' in making pages quicker to load. A great read.

jQuery Changes From 1.4.2 to 1.6—
Anders Janmyr picks a few key changes and additions from jQuery 1.4.2 through to 1.6, including XML parsing, delegates, and deferred calls.

Find the jQuery Bug #1: Chicken or the Egg—
The first in a new series of posts by Elijah Manor (once co-host of the official jQuery podcast) that show off some buggy jQuery-centric code and then walk through the process of fixing it.

Using Pow To Serve Up Your Node.js Project Through Ruby—
Pow is a tool for OS X by 37signals that makes it easy to run Ruby webapps locally for development purposes. In this post, Assaf Arkin shows how to create a simple proxy so you can use Pow to serve up a local Node.js app instead.

Lodis: Like Redis, But In The Browser—
Lodis is essentially a clone of Redis, a popular advanced key-value storage daemon, but in JavaScript and runnable directly in the Web browser. A very interesting idea.

Annotated ECMAScript 5.1: The ES Spec, With More Links—
Annotated ECMAScript 5.1 is a well-formatted HTML version of the formal ECMAScript 5.1 spec, the spec ultimately standing behind the latest versions of JavaScript. Unlike the canonical spec, though, it includes lots of helpful links to extra documentation and resources.